It looks like some kind of trauma, but if it was a gunshot exit wound, I'd expect to see a mosaic fracture with radiating fissures. Looks more like a hammer blow to me. Hard to tell from that one picture though. Gyrfalcon will probably know.

Our keen observation and deductive-reasoning skills are wasted in our current professions.

FloydA:It looks like some kind of trauma, but if it was a gunshot exit wound, I'd expect to see a mosaic fracture with radiating fissures. Looks more like a hammer blow to me. Hard to tell from that one picture though. Gyrfalcon will probably know.

What's wrong with Detroit Free Press links? Are you confusing this with "freepers"?

Not the first time people made that mistake.

/"Ooh, scary, people think differently than I do!"

Yeah...not a lot of "thinking" going on at FreeRepublic.

Been banned there for asking questions, lol...

I have no opinion (haven't visited for years) but I always find it funny when people won't click on an opposing website as if they're avoiding contamination or something. Same with the people who went to the trouble to get those cable signal filters to make sure they'd never see Fox News--even by accident while playing flip the channel. Get a grip.

Grandpa??? Grandpa, is that you?? What's that hole in the side of your head? You know maw's been lookin' for you for a good long time now. She always said you'd come home. And what's with that big fishhook? Gosh darn it, Grandpa, it looks like you've gone and lost your dentures again.

oi_piss_me_off:this is a fear of mine, hiking around minding my own business and stumbling onto human remains. Or having my dog bring back human remains.

Back when I worked for the local history museum, I was helping with some cataloging in the archives and found some ashes and bone fragments (including teeth and most of the intact lower jaw) in a piece of native american pottery that had been previously cataloged as a food container but was actually a funerary urn. Bodies tend to show up in the darndest places.

/Repatriating the remains back to the tribe they came from was a nightmare.

What's wrong with Detroit Free Press links? Are you confusing this with "freepers"?

Not the first time people made that mistake.

/"Ooh, scary, people think differently than I do!"

Yeah...not a lot of "thinking" going on at FreeRepublic.

Been banned there for asking questions, lol...

I have no opinion (haven't visited for years) but I always find it funny when people won't click on an opposing website as if they're avoiding contamination or something. Same with the people who went to the trouble to get those cable signal filters to make sure they'd never see Fox News--even by accident while playing flip the channel. Get a grip.

I think the point is to deprive them of some (admittedly extremely minuscule) ad revenue.

It's a female skeleton, you can tell from the pelvis. Also it might not be old. I'd like to see if that hole in the skull was postmortem too (it doesn't look it from the picture). The bones also look charred. Could be a murder victim, burned the body, took what was left and threw it in the lake.